Jazz in Early Kansas City The Reno Club

In 1935, The Reno Club was a speakeasy off Twelfth Street with a bar, a bandstand, and chorus girls who might have doubled as prostitutes.
Marijuana cigarettes cost 5 cents apiece
Domestic scotch—10 cents
Imported scotch and other liquors—15 cents
Beer—a nickel
Drinks served at the table—a quarter
and
No cover——No minimum
William James “Count” Basie was at the piano. He worked from eight at night until four in the morning for eighteen dollars a week. That year, Basie formed his first band, and it became fifteen- year-old Charlie Parker’s favorite place. He came often to hear the band play and listen to Lester Young on the horn.